we have issues through food stamps, wic, the national school and program is a way that the government can impact what, especially children eat. the issue of should we change the labels. we have somewhat complicated labels of ingredients and attrition. there has been a lot of -- certainly when i was in the white house, we pushed for pack labeling. and we have obviously -- obviously, i say -- in the affordable care act, it included a requirement for caloric menu labeling by any establishment that has 20 outlets or more. again, all under a tested change or have an impact on the obesity epidemic, so i think there are a lot of different ways that the government does intersect with what we eat, and i think it has had a big impact certainly on what children eat, if nothing else. michael: jacob, in terms of federal regulation, what are ways the federal government can do to make sure that people eat more nutritious food? jacob: two basic questions. one is making people aware and giving them access to more nutritious food, and that is basically an informational problem and an access problem. wh

my children qualified for wic. that is a sad statement about what teachers make. no teacher is going to achieve the american dream, because of that. and people -- until people realize that attaining the american dream is one thing that has to be fueled by financial people whoonly the have financial resources will attain that true american dream. whatever it is. i think it is just a drink. host: let's hear from patrick in new jersey. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have been an agreement that the american dream is not attainable during this time. we already lived through our best at times. the infrastructure for the employment rate to increase has diminished. also, with this 30 year stagnation of wages, people cannot keep their head above water to maintain a standard of life that is defined by the american dream as being able to be an middle-class consumer and help drive the economy. what has been happening due to the income inequality is that all the income is going to the , they're not investing in the united states. they are investing outsi

we have the school lunch program with what we permit people to buy with wic and food stamps, now called come influence on what people actually do consume. i think again we all pay for. we pay for it in terms of the food. we pay for it going out as as people get of these other sites. i think being more come are shaping them much more with an eye to the health of people in a just caloric intake is probably pretty important. >> with regard to school lunch programs do you agree that regulations are the right balance, or is there some other way to perhaps fix that? >> i think they could probably be better. i think we would all agree on that. i think they have gotten better than they were. i think it's probably relatively uncontroversial. some of the action is how this requirement are applied or interpreted to different food groups and there's been some controversy there. i think overall the things to note is that is just remarkable captive audience. we're talking about obesity in kids. it's an amazing captive audience. you can't control it comes you can't control. they are there eight hours

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we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do p

. >>> it was this wic that made authorities wonder if the device was live. the bomb squad suited up and in the back room at this local store x-rayed the gadget. it wasn't active but it was a real rocket. >>> they were able to trace back and we believe it was u.s. military from years ago from a war . enforcement now, police warn anyone else who comes across such an unusual find not to touch it or drop it off, just call authorities. >>> they are taking the chance of even moving that and having something whether it explodes or takes off, whatever it happens to be, that's not worth it . >>> kimberly bookman, 7 news today in new england. >> anchor: in think morning we learned nantucket's island airlines and cape islands and air freight are closing their doors. according to the company's web site now, they are closed effect effective immediately. this after 24 years in business. no reason was given for that shut down. checking in on news across the country now, wisconsin postal worker carjacked in broad daylight. we have some surveillance video of what happened he

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you have the school lunch program with what we permit people to buy with wic and food .a.p.,, now called s.n influence on what people do consume, and again, we all pay for it. we pay for coming in in terms of the food, and also for it going out if people get obese on those diets. i think being more or shaping them much more with oan eye to the health of people and not as caloric intake is important. agreel: jacob, do you that regulations regarding the school lunch program are at the right balance? jacob: i think it could probably be better. [laughter] i think we all agree on that. i think they have gotten better than they were. some of the action is how those , different food groups, and there has been some controversy, but overall, it is just a remarkable, captive audience to talk about obesity in kids, it is an amazing captive audience. hours a day,e 8 six hours a day, and that is each daymillion kids that are fed. that is a massive portion of the u.s. population that we just get to decide what they eat. we just get to decide what to eat, and we could decide they that eat a little bit

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i could also support karnilo wic z and even consider hua. >> which seat is this? >> 13 and 14. kelton finey -- >> i believe supervisor wiener is going to be weighing in on this, not now, mr. wiener. >> as along as i get to weigh-in before the two of you make your decisions. >> thank you. >> as a potential tie-breaker. why don't we let our colleagues who authored the legislation go next. >> sure. do you have michele. >> yes. >> do you have michael noland? >> what is he numbered? >> he listed 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, so perhaps 10? 10 might work. >> what else? you have erich pearson, >> i do. >> we'll start there. before supervisor wiener goes, 9 i have stout, 10 i have pearson and 11 i have aldrich and then that is what i -- i think we had agreement on that. let's hear what mr. wiener has to say. >> thank you, mr. chair, i appreciate the opportunity. so i'm going to do -- i'm just go by seat also and for some of them i have multiple, who i would want to consider. for seat no. 9 worked in the cannabis industry, some of the names that really stood out for me was sara payan and i don

safety net programs like wic and the federal food assistant programs do not cover the cost of diapersr favorite foot soldiers is a woman we featured two years ago. she's been working to make this terrifying choice between food and diapers or medicine and diapers a little less urgent by helping families in her community. michelle was the mom of a new infant who had a medical condition requiring cost of dia. so that is why one woman has been helping to make the e tefrfying choice of food and p diapers or medicine and diaper less urgent by helping people in her community. this is a mom who had a child who required diapers changes daily. she formed the kiper bank of north carolina, and it began as a one-woman operation, and it has grown to 150 volunteers across the state of north carolina who have now distributed more than 750,000 diapers. and now sh, michelle and groups like the diaper bank of north carolina might get some more help. a group of congressional democrats are advancing legislation to help advance diapers in need. the hygiene assistance program was introduced last month by mi

with that i like to turn over to wic manley to address some of the issues raised this afternoon. >> good afternoon members of the board. my name is wayne manley of sql counsel to the project sponsor. i do want to note we've had about three dozen speakers attend here in opposition to the project. that's a striking contrast from the hearing at oci brother committee hearings in particular at oci i with three speakers in opposition out about three dozen and two of them were lawyers hired by the allowance. so there's not been an outpouring of opposition i recommend people to express concerns today. we do for the environmental analysis does address their concerns. as one okay palance, the alliance, the seemingly unlimited resources for lawyers and consultants into an admirable job of comments on staff. i have to say, oci i staff the planet to vomit and the consultants have done a pretty remarkable job responding to all the rainstorm, thunderstorm of cons comments that have come. the spec to process, is been accusations by the alliance that the city has short-circuited the process. either by cu

i could also support karnilo wic z and even consider hua. >> which seat is this? >> 13 and 14. kelton finey -- >> i believe supervisor wiener is going to be weighing in on this, not now, mr. wiener. >> as along as i get to weigh-in before the two of you make your decisions. >> thank you. >> as a potential tie-breaker. why don't we let our colleagues who authored the legislation go next. >> sure. do you have michele. >> yes. >> do you have michael noland? >> what is he numbered? >> he listed 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, so perhaps 10? 10 might work. >> what else? you have erich pearson, >> i do. >> we'll start there. before supervisor wiener goes, 9 i have stout, 10 i have pearson and 11 i have aldrich and then that is what i -- i think we had agreement on that. let's hear what mr. wiener has to say. >> thank you, mr. chair, i appreciate the opportunity. so i'm going to do -- i'm just go by seat also and for some of them i have multiple, who i would want to consider. for seat no. 9 worked in the cannabis industry, some of the names that really stood out for me was sara payan and i don

with that i like to turn over to wic manley to address some of the issues raised this afternoon. >> good afternoon members of the board. my name is wayne manley of sql counsel to the project sponsor. i do want to note we've had about three dozen speakers attend here in opposition to the project. that's a striking contrast from the hearing at oci brother committee hearings in particular at oci i with three speakers in opposition out about three dozen and two of them were lawyers hired by the allowance. so there's not been an outpouring of opposition i recommend people to express concerns today. we do for the environmental analysis does address their concerns. as one okay palance, the alliance, the seemingly unlimited resources for lawyers and consultants into an admirable job of comments on staff. i have to say, oci i staff the planet to vomit and the consultants have done a pretty remarkable job responding to all the rainstorm, thunderstorm of cons comments that have come. the spec to process, is been accusations by the alliance that the city has short-circuited the process. either by cu

i could also support karnilo wic z and even consider hua. >> which seat is this? >> 13 and 14. kelton finey -- >> i believe supervisor wiener is going to be weighing in on this, not now, mr. wiener. >> as along as i get to weigh-in before the two of you make your decisions. >> thank you. >> as a potential tie-breaker. why don't we let our colleagues who authored the legislation go next. >> sure. do you have michele. >> yes. >> do you have michael noland? >> what is he numbered? >> he listed 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, so perhaps 10? 10 might work. >> what else? you have erich pearson, >> i do. >> we'll start there. before supervisor wiener goes, 9 i have stout, 10 i have pearson and 11 i have aldrich and then that is what i -- i think we had agreement on that. let's hear what mr. wiener has to say. >> thank you, mr. chair, i appreciate the opportunity. so i'm going to do -- i'm just go by seat also and for some of them i have multiple, who i would want to consider. for seat no. 9 worked in the cannabis industry, some of the names that really stood out for me was sara payan and i don

with that i like to turn over to wic manley to address some of the issues raised this afternoon. >> good afternoon members of the board. my name is wayne manley of sql counsel to the project sponsor. i do want to note we've had about three dozen speakers attend here in opposition to the project. that's a striking contrast from the hearing at oci brother committee hearings in particular at oci i with three speakers in opposition out about three dozen and two of them were lawyers hired by the allowance. so there's not been an outpouring of opposition i recommend people to express concerns today. we do for the environmental analysis does address their concerns. as one okay palance, the alliance, the seemingly unlimited resources for lawyers and consultants into an admirable job of comments on staff. i have to say, oci i staff the planet to vomit and the consultants have done a pretty remarkable job responding to all the rainstorm, thunderstorm of cons comments that have come. the spec to process, is been accusations by the alliance that the city has short-circuited the process. either by cu

with that i like to turn over to wic manley to address some of the issues raised this afternoon. >> good afternoon members of the board. my name is wayne manley of sql counsel to the project sponsor. i do want to note we've had about three dozen speakers attend here in opposition to the project. that's a striking contrast from the hearing at oci brother committee hearings in particular at oci i with three speakers in opposition out about three dozen and two of them were lawyers hired by the allowance. so there's not been an outpouring of opposition i recommend people to express concerns today. we do for the environmental analysis does address their concerns. as one okay palance, the alliance, the seemingly unlimited resources for lawyers and consultants into an admirable job of comments on staff. i have to say, oci i staff the planet to vomit and the consultants have done a pretty remarkable job responding to all the rainstorm, thunderstorm of cons comments that have come. the spec to process, is been accusations by the alliance that the city has short-circuited the process. either by cu